Pol Plançon was, with no serious competition, the leading bass of his time. He was perhaps the most technically accomplished singer to make sound recordings of any kind.

I compiled a list of his records in an attempt to get a handle on my holdings of them.

Below is a link to that list. It contains every recording I know about, all the information I have about each recording, and all the recordings I have as of the revision date in the document.

You can judge his singing for yourself by following the two links below. These are the records I would play for anyone who asked me what all the shouting was about. Plançon was the leading Méphistophélès of his day. The Air du tambour-major from Le caïd is one of the basses' "national anthems," but no one that I've heard sails through it quite like Plançon.

Created: 12 May 2012
Revised: 22 May 2020